Terminology

This page contains glossaries used in the NNS documentation.

Name

An NNS identifier such as 'salmo.nad'.

Owner

The owner of a name is the owner of the NFT token that represent the name. An owner may transfer ownership, set resolved address, name's attributes, ...

Primary name

The NNS name that you want a particular wallet account to be associated with. When set, it will be displayed instead of your 0x address on integrating websites/apps.

Avatar

A picture that is associated with a NNS name.

Text record

A pair of key - value, use to store informations associated with a NNS name.

Label

An individual component of a name, such as 'salmo' in name 'salmo.nad'.

Labelhash

The keccak256 hash of an individual label.

Namehash

The algorithm used to process a name and return a cryptographic hash uniquely identifying that name. Namehash takes a name as input and produces a node.

Node

A cryptographic hash uniquely identifying a name.